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Fijut Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:43pm
alien won't kill synthetics?
or at least this one. i'm stuck in a room with a terminal i need to use, with a synthetic arsehole that will turn evil if i try to use it. All the while the alien keeps appearing at the same time. I've managed to do it once by beating up the synthetic, but i died at another point afterwards and it took a lot of luck the first time.

the alien drops in and looks around, and even if i use flares or a nosie maker, it just wanders around the room totally ignoring the synthetic :( is this a bug>?
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Vesper Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:45pm 
I'm not sure how far in you are, Otherwise I could explain but it would be a spoiler if I did. What part are you on?
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Fijut Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:46pm 
just after you get the plasma torch. gonna try it again and set the synthetic on fire and run for it
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Vesper Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:47pm 
Yea I would explain but it would spoiler. Sorry, but yea the alien wont kill synths, and there is a reason for it.
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Shadow Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:48pm 
Originally posted by Basilius:
Yea I would explain but it would spoiler. Sorry, but yea the alien wont kill synths, and there is a reason for it.

An Alien did kill Bishop though in the movie lol.
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Fijut Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:49pm 
i guessed that since the idiot just stands there and says "unsual species" or something
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Fijut Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:49pm 
Originally posted by Ex3beatnik:
Originally posted by Basilius:
Yea I would explain but it would spoiler. Sorry, but yea the alien wont kill synths, and there is a reason for it.

An Alien did kill Bishop though in the movie lol.

this is why i was getting annoyed
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Vesper Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:50pm 
Originally posted by Ex3beatnik:
Originally posted by Basilius:
Yea I would explain but it would spoiler. Sorry, but yea the alien wont kill synths, and there is a reason for it.

An Alien did kill Bishop though in the movie lol.
Thats different. I want to explain but it would honestly spoil the big twist of the whole game :L
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DeKrieg Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:55pm 
While there is a spoilerific reason, synthetics have *mostly* been ignored by aliens in the franchise, with the only 2 points an alien actually aknowledges a synth is obviously bishop getting gutted by the Queen and the newborn attacking Cal in Alien Resurrection.

In fact the novelisation of aliens has it as a point that when Bishop goes to reset the dish to call down thedropship the aliens ignore him

The comic books have also run with this with synths being ignored by aliens except when they pose a direct threat or impede an alien.

Also the previous video games have also run with this with synths not being picked up in alien view in the AVP games so are usually the hardest foes you fight outside of a predator as they can catch you by surprise.
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Fijut Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:56pm 
yes, a flare to make him walk out of the room does it. but i wanted to see him die :(
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Vesper Oct 7, 2014 @ 5:57pm 
Originally posted by Fijut:
yes, a flare to make him walk out of the room does it. but i wanted to see him die :(
Could just poke him with a Shaq baton then beat on his face. Thats always fun. specially when they cough up their nasty white blood
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Fijut Oct 7, 2014 @ 6:06pm 
Originally posted by Basilius:
Originally posted by Fijut:
yes, a flare to make him walk out of the room does it. but i wanted to see him die :(
Could just poke him with a Shaq baton then beat on his face. Thats always fun. specially when they cough up their nasty white blood

not in this particular place... alien comes quicker than usual
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Maxagaze Oct 7, 2014 @ 6:07pm 
Bishop was not killed from an ordinary alien, but from the queen, because he was standing in her way. The simple alien does not attack sythetics because it does not have any profit. It cannot eat sythetics, it cannot infest synthetics, therefore it doesnt attack them as it doesn't attack boxes or other machines. It does however attack other humans doesn't it?
Last edited by Maxagaze; Oct 7, 2014 @ 6:08pm
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Jaegar Oct 7, 2014 @ 6:20pm 
This makes me wonder why Ash didn't lure the monster out...
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Vesper Oct 7, 2014 @ 6:24pm 
Originally posted by Heinrick:
This makes me wonder why Ash didn't lure the monster out...

He was supposed to leave it be. If he lured it our he risked the Xeno thinking he was a threat and killing him, or he risked revealing himself. He probably knew the xeno would kill them off eventually so he tried to sit back and wait it out. But Ripley caught on and informed the others.
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